Prosecutions of Women Who Use Drugs While Pregnant On the Rise
In the United States, more than 50 women have been prosecuted for child neglect or manslaughter since 1999 because they were found...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 23, 20222 min read
Fetal Personhood Laws Could Criminalize Common Health Actions
As roughly half the states have moved to enact near-total bans on abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June,...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 22, 20222 min read
Can Prosecutors Stop Legal Action In Abortion Cases After Fall Of Roe?
When the Supreme Court toppled the constitutional right to abortion, some prosecutors country vowed to refrain from enforcing new...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 11, 20222 min read
Five Varied Abortion Measures On State Ballots In November
The landslide victory for abortion rights in a Kansas primary vote this month was the first direct expression of voter sentiment on the...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 10, 20222 min read
NE Woman Charged in Helping Her Teen Daughter Have An Abortion
A Nebraska woman was charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy at about 24 weeks after investigators uncovered Facebook...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 3, 20221 min read
DOJ Challenges Idaho's 'Trigger' Near-Total Abortion Ban
The Justice Department filed a challenge to Idaho's "trigger" near-total abortion ban — the Biden's administration's first abortion...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 2, 20221 min read
Seven Michigan Prosecutors Won't Enforce the State Abortion Ban
On Monday, Michigan’s Court of Appeals ruled abortion a crime except in cases to save the mother’s life, Detroit Free Press reports. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 1, 20222 min read
Biden Faces Controversy Over Abortion Pill by Mail
The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices, denouncing their colleagues’ decision to eliminate the nationwide right to abortion, warned...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 29, 20222 min read
How Midwestern Journalists Found Story Of 10-Year-Old Rape Victim
Good court reporting by midwest journalists proved that the story of a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio who was forced to travel to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21, 20221 min read
Ocasio-Cortez Denies She Faked Being Handcuffed At High Court
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pushed back on criticism claiming she faked being handcuffed when police arrested her at an abortion...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21, 20221 min read
DOJ May Sue States That Banned All Abortions After SCOTUS Decision
Attorney General Merrick Garland threatened to sue states that have outlawed or restricted abortion since the Supreme Court overturned...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 20, 20221 min read
Doctor Who Did Abortion For Rape Victim, 10, Suing Indiana AG
Caitlin Bernard, the ob-gyn who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio, is suing Indiana Attorney General Todd...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 15, 20222 min read
Ohio Rape Abortion Story Spread Fast Despite Lack of Facts
It took only four paragraphs in a regional newspaper to start a media conflagration over abortion that in two weeks engulfed President...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 14, 20222 min read
Critics Say DOJ Rules Could Allow Abortion Privacy Violations
Democratic leaders have upped the pressure on tech companies to limit how much sensitive data they collect after the Supreme Court...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 14, 20221 min read
Man Arrested For Rape of 10-Year Old Girl Who Traveled For Abortion
A man was charged with impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl whose travel to Indiana to seek an abortion got international attention and...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 13, 20222 min read
A Pregnant Woman's Driving Ticket Drives Fetal Personhood Debate
Last month, a pregnant woman in Texas was pulled over and given a ticket for driving alone in a high-occupancy vehicle lane. She argued...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Justice Department Launches Abortion Rights Task Force
The Justice Department is starting a “reproductive rights task force” to marshal federal legal resources aimed at preventing overreach...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 13, 20221 min read
Women in Immigration Custody Are Entitled to Abortion Services
Top immigration officials plan to instruct detention centers nationwide that women in custody are entitled to abortions and should be...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 11, 20221 min read
Critics Want to Prevent Google Data Use to Prosecute Abortion Seekers
With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, advocates fear that Google data could be used to apprehend those seeking abortions, NPR reports. When...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 6, 20221 min read
Hactivists Attack AR, KY Agencies to Protest Abortion Bans
An abortion rights hacktivist group says it launched cyberattacks against Arkansas and Kentucky state governments and leaked files from...
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